A former physician at NorthShore Hospital has pleaded not guilty to felony charges he stole nearly $200,000 worth of equipment from two of the medical group's north suburban facilities.

Vinay Rawlani, 34, of the 1200 block of South Prairie Avenue in Chicago, was charged in May with multiple counts of felony theft for allegedly stealing an ultrasound machine, two ultrasound probes, a video printer, a video storage device, infusion and compression pumps, an automated external defibrillator, a suction machine, and a bladder scanner, among other items, from medical facilities in Evanston and Skokie between Jan. 23 and April 22, authorities said.

Rawlani is now enrolled in a Cook County court mental health program for undisclosed problems, officials said.

He was arrested after staff at the hospital noticed the items missing, which prompted security personnel to review surveillance footage and identify Rawlani as the individual allegedly responsible for the thefts, officials said.

During a brief hearing at the Skokie courthouse Friday, Rawlani pleaded not guilty to all charges. The doctor, who is free on bond, enrolled in the court mental health program in the weeks following his arrest, officials said.

Founded in 2004, the program is designed to get professional help for people charged with felony crimes and those on probation who have chronic mental health conditions, most of whom also have co-occurring substance dependencies, according to the court website.

"It can change your life or the way your life is going," Judge Lauren Gottainer Edidin said to Rawlani on Friday.

Officials said Rawlani has returned some of the medical equipment to the hospitals. In addition to working for NorthShore, Rawlani was serving as chief resident at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University's plastic surgery program for 2015-16, before the center placed him on administrative leave pending an internal review, according to Northwestern University.

Prosecutors said Rawlani admitted to "accidentally" taking some equipment from the Evanston and Skokie hospitals while traveling between them. While equipment was found in Rawlani's home, prosecutors said they have no evidence that Rawlani was storing the equipment for private use.